Parallax Scroll

LONG BLOG

Okay, this is just really friggin' awesome! Like Unbelievably awesome. Like amazingly unbelievably awesome. Like, the sort of awesome that you only get the slightest glimpse of, but then that glimpse moves you to the point of obsession. An obsession that would lead you to mutilate all the contenders of the Puppy Bowl if it were asked of you, so long as you could see more.

Milton (the Magnificent [I call him that. He doesn't refer to himself as this {though he should, because he deserves it <at least he does should he be able to pull this off>}]) from Argentina has undertaken the task of recreating the GameBoy Mono classic Metroid 2 into the image of Metroid: Zero Mission!

Here's some comparison shots from his blog of the work in progress:

The country of Argentina should publicly declare this 27 year-old wunderkind a national treasure and give him his own holiday. Imagine, Milton the Magnificent Day, every January the 3rd (celebrating the day that he first went public with his work). Then the US should follow suit, and co-opt this very important day of celebration and make it its very own. A day of drinking. And video game playing. You know, what Christmas was meant to be!

Then the stone cold reality hits me. More often then not these projects amount to little in the end. Either because the IP-owners interfere with their cease-and-decist orders (like the 3D Chrono Trigger remake), or because the creators just didn't have it in them to see the project through to completion (to many examples to list) or because of death (the tragic loss of the creator of the 2D Ocarina of Time remake). So, could we actually see this become a reality? Well, it couldn't hurt to got to Mr. Magnificent's blog and cheer him on. Give him your support. Tell him what an amazing source of inspiration he is. Promise to name a child after him should he finish it (Milton's not a bad name after all, and not so very common [why, in High School I had a class with three other kids with my name- He'd never have that problem]). Hell, you could promise to give him your first born. I mean, if he can do this with ancient GameBoy Mono game, think of what he could do with the spawn of your loins... and, and um... some duct tape!

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About Haxanone of us since 11:13 AM on 10.23.2007

Legitimately beat Mike Tyson and went through Another World Circuit undefeated.

Beat the original Contra without dying. Twice.

Can land the damn plane in Top Gun and can also refuel in midair.

Can't beat Ghost & Goblins without the level select code and has never lied about it.

Thinks Friday the 13th is a great game even if the physics, controls and weapons are garbage.

Mario Paint caused him to buy a Super Nintendo and largely leave his Sega Genesis behind. He has played it more than most video games and wore down the mouse pad so that the grid only shows around the corners.

Has beaten Street Fighter II: The World Warrior and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers on the SNES on the hardest difficulty without losing a single round. Multiple times.

Is still friends with the girl who worked at a local game store and sold him Street Fighter II nearly 17 years ago.

Beat Final Fantasy 2 in a weekend when he was a kid, yet can't get through a role-playing game these days if his life depended on it.

Has never beaten Final Fantasy VII.

Prefers pads to sticks.

Likes the N64 controller.

Prefers the Duke to the S-controller.

Doesn't think that Super Mario 64 is all that great.

Got an Xbox mostly for Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. And thinks it's a damn good game. Really.

Swore he would never buy a Game Boy Advanced SP, but immediately broke down once the NES edition came out. (And regarding the NES Classics series, true in-store dialogue: "Dude, are you serious?! They seriously expect people to pay 20 dollars a piece for games they can just downlo...Ooh! Zelda!")

Really liked the first Halo. (Well, there goes my dtoid cred.)

Can rock out Dynamite Rave in Dance Dance Revolution like it's nobody's business.

Played the hell out of Animal Crossing: Wild World and hid that fact from nobody.

Stomped Brad Nicholson at Street Fighter IV, but had to resort to the cheapest of tactics in order to do so. ;)

I love drawing, though I realize that I'm not very good. I figured early on that drawing my own header art would help my blogs stand out. Thanks to Destructoid, and to the scanner that Carollelogram got me for my birthday last year, I feel like I've developed a unique style that's distinctly my own.

Outside of games I've got a DVD collection that is exploding out of a 5'x6' shelf (over 400 titles). So suffice it to say that I love movies. I'm a huge horror fan and I host an annual Dusk Till Dawn Horror Movie Marathon nearly every October. My top ten favorite films in order are as follows:

Music-wise, my top 3 bands are The Pixies, The Velvet Underground and Radiohead. I listen to damn near every genre of music (except modern country. I yearn for the days of Hank Williams, Sr. and Tammy Wynette). Hit random on my mp3 player and you'll get everything from darkwave to hip hop to 80's synthpop. I karaoke pretty regularly. I can't sing, but I surround myself with people who can. Still, you've not experienced all there is in life until you've seen me proper butcher True by Spandau Ballet.

Then, as for the literary interests, my love lies with pulp detective novels of the thirties and forties. Raymond Chandler is simply the greatest ever. And Dashiell Hammett is just fantastic. Lately, I've been reading through Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles at Carollelogram's recommendation. Two books in and I have to say they're astonishing.

If you do the Twitter thing, Haxan1 is my handle should you want to follow me.

Feel free to friend me to your console of choice should you ever want to play a game of Street Fighter. Just be sure to let me know that you're from Destructoid and you'll get the royal treatment.